Layer 8

2010

February

• The uses of law.

• A meme is born.

January

• Managing to the biggest risk.

• Biscuits and gravy!

• Shopping for security.

2009

December

• EOY roundup.

• Don’t ask me, ask that guy over there.

November

• BSOFH:  the roar of the packets, the smell of the cloud.

• BSOFH:  Catering to a niche market.

• The meaning of metrics.

October

• The lost art of the phone call.

September

• Bring in ‘da noise, bring in ‘da FUD.

• The policy bootstrapping problem.

July

• Who is @securityintern?

• When ‘high availability’ isn’t good enough.

• The BIG REVEAL.  (Sort of.)

• Nao and Zen:  Security Koans for Everybody

• Data classification for dummies.

June

• BSOFH:  All’s fair in security and war.

• Whither the CISO?

• Two’s a company, three’s a cloud.

• If Twitter were all we had for security ...

May

• Meet the new Trek, same as the old Trek.

• Clouding the encryption issue.

• Dell tiptoes into the 20th century.

• “Security is dead” must DIE.

• Mother’s Day, the Green Edition.

• Let go, let Cloud.

• Abusing the system.

• Looking both ways.

April

• Reefer(ral) Madness.

• Once more into the breach report.

• It’s an hono(u)r just to be NOMmed.

• Trust never sleeps.

• Does this ASS make my cert look big?

March

• In defense of Twitter.

• Of maturity and mediocrity.

• Fubared.

• When worlds collide.

• See, or see not.  There is no “squint.”

• Tony the (Paper) Tiger.

February

• Carrot-sticks and security.

• Neil Gaiman’s shopping list.

January

• Professor of the Bad-Ass War and Peace College.

• From the other side of the hiring desk ...

2008

December

• Why the MD5 cert hack doesn’t matter.

• A meaningful degree of FAIL.

• Out with the old, in with the new.

November

• Condemned to repeat it.

• Blood on the dashboard!

• One short comment.

October

• How NOT to break the news.

• Why Security, Privacy and Compliance don’t mix.

• The downside of RBAC.

September

• Wonky thought for the day.

• C’est magnifique, mais ce n’est pas la guerre ...

August

• Why I’ll never write a book.

• Oh look, a chicken!

• Type faster, I hear banjos ...

• YA BH/DC BP.

• Quant love.

July

• My big fat Geek wedding.

• If you’re going to San Francisco ...

• Tips for job hunters.

• Why I’m not blogging.

June

• The Power of FAIL.

• Security in sixty seconds or less.

• What bugs me about my work.

• Why Alex keeps me up at night.

• Not too much to say.

May

• Facing the business end of the ‘scope.

• Security’s greatest hits.

• I’ll overcome my procrastination problem, just you wait!

• R before C, especially after G.

• One of life’s great mysteries.

• What’s in a name?

April

• BSOFH:  Schwag shopping.

• Of course, some people do go both ways.

• A Confederacy of Somethings.

• How to keep a darknet in your own data center.

• This just in:  Christofer Hoff to acquire Rich Mogull.

March

• Been a long time since I’ve rock-and-rolled.

January

• My theme for 2008?

2007

December

• Forever blowing bubbles.

• Quick bitch.

November

• Really, really busy right now ...

October

• Attention, attention ...

• With a song in my heart ...

• Finally, a complete set of protocols!

• Realsicherheit.

• One man’s apathy is another’s risk tolerance.

• Do we make a difference?

• We want YOUR information to be free.

• Teach your children well.

September

• What he said.

• Tip o’ the day.

• Hey, that dog food’s actually kinda tasty.

• Redeeming social value?

• This matches my mood today ...

• BSOFH:  Security’s in the air.